Not that there's anything wrong with that …
Why can’t a guy tell another guy that his ass looks nice in those jeans in a completely innocent and complimentary way WITHOUT everyone thinking he’s gay?
Why are men so scared of receiving a compliment from another man? Will they Catch Gay? Could it lead to a sleepover with the Queer Eye guys?Women give compliments to other women all the time. Sure, sometimes this might result in two chicks Getting It On in a freaky night of latent lesbian lust, but most of the time it just makes the Nice Remark Recipient feel good about themselves. Right chicks? I got to thinking about all this after I posted a comment on Jennifer’s site. I noticed that she had a picture of former All Black* rugby player** Ron Cribb in her archives, and she thought he was Sex In Sprigged Boots. 
The comment I posted went something like: “Have you checked out Daniel Carter from the All Blacks? He does underwear commercials. We're talking big building-sized billboards…” 
Immediately after posting that message, I realised that my comment might have come across as being Totally Gay. But it was too late.
All I meant to say was that she could do better than Ron Cribb.
Daniel Carter is my favourite rugby player, but that’s as far as our relationship extends. But why should I even have to worry about making a nice comment about another man?
I’m completely comfortable with my heterosexuality. So here it is: Daniel Carter is a hottie. He looks good in underwear.
See, nothing Gay in that. Last week, I actually did tell another man that he had a nice ass. I was having a little bit of a road cycling race against a guy from work, who is younger/fitter/faster than me. He was winning, so my only real view of him was his Lycra-clad ass.
So I called out: “HEY MAN, YOU HAVE A REALLY NICE ASS!”
He freaked-out and lost control of his bike and crashed into a parked car and broke his neck and, Yay! I won the race. Rock on.
Back when I was younger and my father was a grumpy farmer, he informed me and my two brothers, that, if any of us ever came home and told him that we were a “Homosapien”, he would disown us.
To this day, all three of us are still too scared to confess to him that we are, in fact, Homo sapiens***.
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* An All Black is a NZ Rugby player. It is not a racial slur, even though most of the team are not white…
Legend has it that the name comes from a NZ tour of Britain in 1905 when a reporter who covered the event wrote that the whole team played as if they were “all backs”. But a typographical error meant it was printed as “all blacks”. The name stuck. ** Rugby is the world’s greatest team sport. The All Blacks is the world’s greatest rugby team … even though we tend to lose crucial finals matches to lesser teams. Like England. And Australia. And South Africa. And France. And (nearly) Wales. But not to the US, China or Japan. That will be the day hell freezes over. *** Just in case you also think “homosapien” means “Totally Gay”, it in fact means “a human being”. Although some Homo sapiens are Totally Gay. These people are known as Homo-loving sapiens. Which explains why some people, like my father, get confused.
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